All fantastic stuff!! :) Thanks, Julien, Jan and Erik for taking the initiative on this and getting things setup!

I'll start gathering notes and chat with Moiz on the best way to show a link on the portal page to direct users that would want to test out our ideas. 

We'll also need to redo the "testing" site page so that each test is clearly explained and give the users a chance to make comments in a Phab ticket for the test.

So exciting! :)

Cheers,

Deb

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On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Yeah, had a similar concern. I was wondering if a non-indexed subdir would do the trick. Naturally any code deployed for potentially so many users would need scrutiny for simple stuff like XSS, and I imagine analytics scripts would have to factor in the sub site. 


On Monday, January 25, 2016, Oliver Keyes <okeyes@wikimedia.org> wrote:
Good Q. I guess my question would be about the practical costs in
setup, deployment and patch time for a prod service.

On 25 January 2016 at 11:24, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
> ...that is, if it is prioritized for a link from the portal homepage,
> anyway.
>
>
> On Monday, January 25, 2016, Adam Baso <abaso@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>
>> For domain name and hosting: should it be a production domain name on a
>> production host?
>>
>> On Friday, January 22, 2016, Julien Girault <jgirault@wikimedia.org>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> The Discovery Portal team has been thinking about a Portal Labs page.
>>>
>>> The idea is that we can implement some revolutionary ideas for our portal
>>> page, things that are completely different than what the current portal page
>>> looks like, and deploy it on this site for real users to use. But without
>>> imposing a disruptive user experience to our users. We can put a link to
>>> this page on the production portal page (in the bottom?), and users can have
>>> an option to bookmark the page, and maybe make one of the experiments their
>>> default.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> We would have two trains:
>>>
>>> - Slow train: running regular A/B tests (like the one we just ran) on the
>>> official portal page and deploying small improvements as we learn.
>>>
>>> - Faster train: "Revolutionary" prototypes in Labs where we also collect
>>> traffic and clickthrough rate to measure user satisfaction. We can also
>>> implement a "Send a Feedback" feature (or have a link on the prototype page
>>> that points to a Phab ticket where community can add comments/feedback).
>>>
>>> To give you an example of what we mean by revolutionary ideas, I uploaded
>>> some of my research time work:
>>> https://people.wikimedia.org/~jgirault/
>>>
>>> Pay closer attention to:
>>> Trending Showing top 9 articles (grid)
>>> Trending Showing top 10 articles (full screen)
>>>
>>>
>>> This would allow us to think outside the box and test different
>>> layouts/features, with real users who chose to.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is kind of a crazy idea, and we want to know what you all think
>>> about it. Also we would need some naming ideas for it. Portal labs, or beta
>>> portal, or something else.
>>>
>>> Please let us know what you think about this, how you think we can go
>>> towards making this happen and what we should name it.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> Julien
>
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